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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 7973894" data-attributes="member: 6910340">Anecdotally: I am a 44-year-old white guy in New York City. I currently run multiple tables. We usually play in person but during the pandemic all but one game has been able to move online (see below). My players in group 1:3 female, 2 male. All in their 40s. 4 white, 1 Asian-American.My players in group 2:6 female, 1 male. All 20s-30s. 5 white, 1 Asian-American, 1 African-American. My players in group 3:2 female, 4 male. All early 20s college students. 1 white, 1 Asian-American, 4 Latinx. (Note: this is the ONLY group that has not been able to continue our game online during the pandemic because several of the players are from under-privileged backgrounds and do not have access to reliable hi-speed internet at home. As a result, this game is on hiatus). Group 4 (I'm a player)DM is a white guy in his 40s. Players are 2 female, 2 males (including me). 3 white, 1 Latinx, all 30s-40s.So my in-person experience is that a majority of my regular players are female, a majority are white but there is still racial diversity present, and age range is 20s-40s. Of the wider circle of players with whom I play D&D occasionally, the racial and age breakdown is consistent with this; there are also 2 non-binary players and DMs I've gamed with over the past year. However, the breakdown of players who I play with that are likely to post on ENWorld or other D&D boards/groups and really get involved in any online discussions of the game is quite different. Specifically, of the players and DMs listed above, I would say that the only ones who do that are me, one white guy in his 40s, one white guy in his 30s, and one Latina woman in her 30s. I don't think it would even occur to most of the rest of them that talking about D&D on a message board would be a thing they'd ever want to do - and for the people in their 20s, I suspect many of them don't use any message boards at all.</blockquote>

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